Bottle-crate



L. H. PAYNE. BOTTLE CRATE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-23l 1919.

Patented Feb. 17,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEE n. PAYNE, cnioaeo, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CRATE.

Application filed August 23, 1919.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that 1, LEE H. TAYNE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chi cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Crates, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to produce a bottle crate, such for instance as is used for handling milk bottles, which crate shall be durable in construction, but relatively inexpensive in cost of materials and labor for assembly.

It has been proposed to construct a bottle crate with a rectangular frame of wood havingits interior space subdivided into pockets by means of intersecting metal strips, ires or the like located in a plurality of planes therein and of which the lowermost strip or wire is extended across the pocket spaces to support the bottles confined therein and at a sufficient distance above the lower edge to protect the bottles from injury by bottom impact. But the method heretofore followed, of anchoring the ends of the partitioning and suppor ing strips has been unsatisfactory as to security of the anchorage of the strips to the frame structure, and, in some instances, as to security of the frame structure itself, which has its side walls subdivided into panels to permit of the stripends being nailed etween them, thereby leaving the frame dependent mainly upon the end walls for integrity of structure; besides involving an expensive procedure in assembly.

The present invention overcomes these several objections, primarily, by elongating the strip-anchoring means vertically, so that while passing through the perforated end of a partition strip overlying the edge of a wall panel or entering a pocket or hole in the wall, said anchoring means will likewise serve as an effective rivet or tie-rod that extends through the wall in the plane thereof and sustains the wall of the frame against splitting or against separating into its constituent panels, when made in sections; the preferred embodiment of the invention involving one or more of the additional features of using the same tie-rod or rivet for anchoring all of the partition-strip ends that lie in the same vertical line; using some of the tie-rods or rivets to hold the bottom strip cleats upon the frame; using additional tierods to hold the mortised or otherwise j oint- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1'7, 19.20.

Serial No. 313.423.

ed corners of the frame; and if desired, building up the entire me "rom a number of suitably jointed horizontal lie I BcLlOliS, with suitably interposed partition strips and with the intersecting tie-rods extending through the sections, and through the intervening partition-strip ends and tying the whole together in a firm structure.

The invention will be more fully understood from the following detailed description of two embodiments thereof selected for purposes of illustration, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one illustrative embodiment of the invention;

Figs. 2 and 3 are the sections of the frame, taken respectively in longitudinal and transverse vertical planes through tierods or rivets thereof;

Fig. l is a sectional detail view of the bot tom strip anchorage, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention in which the frame of the crate is built up of separately framed sections assembled together wi 11 the partition strip through means of the tie-rods or rivets.

1 represents the end walls, 2 the side walls, and 3, ti, intersecting partition strips, and 5 the bottom strips, of a bottle crate. For the purpose of anchoring the longitudinal strips 3, in the embodiment shown in F ig. 1, their perforated ends are inserted in the pockets or penings 6, in position to be inter sected by rivets 7. In order to similarly anchor the ends of strips f, they are perforated and introduced between opposed facesof the panels :2 of sidewalls 2, in position to be intersected by other rivets 7. The bottom strips 5 are anchored by nails 8, passing tl rough cleats 9 and through the ends of said bottom strips.

Each of the rivets 7 is made long enough to pass vertically through the wall in which it is carried and receive suitable burs or heads at its ends so that it becomes a tierod for the wall, holding together the members or panels thereof, if the wall is made in section, or preventing splitting if made in one piece. are employed in these walls on which the bottom strips are anchored, in this instance the end walls 1) are made to pass through the cleats 9, as well as through the main body of the wall and thereby take the load imposed upon the cleats by dropping the bot- The tie-rods or rivets 7 which placement of ties upon the 7 suggested in Fig. 5, by superposing frames separately constructed from end panels 1?, as well as side panels 2", one upon another to develop the desired dimension of frame, and then securing the whole structure together by the tie-rods T and 10, introduced as already described in connection with Fig. 1, the depth of the frame sections being appropriate to the vertical spacing to be developed between the partition strips, and these )aled upon the rivets or tie-rods as the building up progresses.

A crate constructed as herein described is especially adapted to sustani the load of its contained bottles when lifted by the usual handles near the upper edge of the frame.

' The partition strips will preferably be deflected, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 8, to bring the main portions thereof in planes at 90 from the plaiies of their ends in order that they may receive the bottles by their flat faces and separate the bottles only by their lesser dimension and correspondingly reduce the overall dimensions of the crate.

1 claim: 7 V

1. in a crate, a frame.comprising walls, partitioning strips intersecting the walls, and tie-rods extend ng through the walls, in the planes thereof, and through the strips, and thereby securing the integrity of the walls and anchoring the strips thereto. 7

2. In a crate, a frameeomprising walls, a wallbeing composed of panels superposed in the plane of the wall, partition strips intersecting the walls, the ends of the strips being introducedbetween meeting faces of panels, and tie-rods extending through the walls in the planes thereof and through the strips, thereby tying together the panels and anchoring the strips thereto.

3. in a crate, a franc comprising walls, partitioning strips intersecting the walls, and tie-rods extending through the Walls. in the planes thereof, and through the strips, and thereby securing the integrity of the walls and anchoring the strips thereto, said walls being united by mortised ends thereof and corner-tie rods passing through overlapping portions of the mortises. V

l-pln a crate, a frame comprising end walls, side walls composed of panels united at their ends to said end walls, transverse partition strips extending between and inersecting said side Walls, and having their ends received between opposed faces of the panels, longitudinal partition strips ext nd ing between the end walls, said end alls having openings perinitt'ng the ends of said longitudinal partition strips to intersect said end walls, and tie-rods extending through both side and end Walls in the planes thereof and through the intersecting ends of the strips, and thereby insuring the integrity of the walls and anchoring the strips thereto. 7

5. In a crate, end walls, side walls composed of superposed panels mortised to the end walls, partition strips intersecting the walls, tie-rods extending through the end walls in the planes thereof and through the ends of the partition strips, to insure the integrity of the end Walls and anchor the strips thereto, and corner tie-rods extending through the mortised joints.

6. In a crate, a frame con'iprising walls, partition strips'intersecting the Walls, tierods extending through the walls in the planes thereof and throughthe partition strips, thereby insuring the integrity of the walls and anchoring the strips thereto, bottonrstrips anchored to thewalls, and cleats securing said bottom strips and through which too tie-rods also pass.

7. In a crate, a fram composed of a plurali of separately formed frame-sections, )artition strips subdividing the crate into pockets, and having their ends receive-d between opposed faces of frame-sections, and tie-rods extending through the several frame-sections in the planes of the walls, and through the interposed ends of the partition strips, thereby insuring the integrity of the built up frame and anchoring the strips thereon. r

. 8. In crate, a frame composed of a plurality of, separately formed frame-sections having inortised corner joints, partition strips subdividing the crate into pockets, and having their ends received between 0pposed faces of frame sections, tie-rods extending through the several frame-sections, in the planes of the walls, and through the interposed "encs of the partition strips,

thereby insuring the integrity of the built up frame and anchoringthe strips thereon,

and corner tie-rods extending through the mortise corner joints, securing the latter and assisting to hold the frame-sections together. Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day 

